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What Are the Politics of Color in Art?
A Treatise on Color: Vols. I–IV examines notions of value and emotional resonance to interrogate the influence of hue in its exploration of color.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents Seeing Sound, Curated by Barbara London
This expansive exhibition of sonic installations explores the recent trajectory of sound as a dynamic branch of contemporary art practice.
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Man Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture in Italy
The vandal toppled the porcelain cube during a reception at Palazzo Fava in Bologna.
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Simone Leigh’s Monuments to the Black Femme
Leigh’s survey split between two Los Angeles venues demonstrates the futility in prescribing a definitive role to the Black feminine in a postcolonial world.
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The Neoclassical Painter Lost to History
An exhibition outlines 19th-century artist Guillaume Lethière’s connection to his birthplace, mixed-race heritage, and the politics of revolution.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Never-Ending Quest for Beauty
Natalie Dykstra meticulously combs through archival material to fashion a biography of the inimitable, complex arts patron, who ordered her private letters to be destroyed after her death.
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Five Roadside Folk Art Wonders in Rural Wisconsin
Countless displays of intense and idiosyncratic brilliance are nestled in the grassy hills of the Midwest state.
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Dürer Engraving Found by 11-Year-Old in Dumpster Sells for $44,000
Mat Winter scavenged for rarities in his early youth. It finally paid off.
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Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Fall Equinox
Big and transformative energies are in the collective air as we enter into the coming months — be prepared.
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A Monument to Trans and Nonbinary Life Graces Trafalgar Square
The prismatic artwork by Teresa Margolles includes plaster cast faces of 726 people from Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez, and London.
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New Conduct Guidelines at Barnard Met With Faculty Backlash
The list of prohibited activities effectively bans protest signage on the New York college campus, coming in the wake of last spring’s student-led Gaza solidarity demonstrations.
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Toronto Biennial of Art Promises Joy Amid Precarity
The third edition of the free citywide event features artists including Cecilia Vicuña and Pamila Matharu.